Cal. Health & Safety Code § 32127.1

Notwithstanding any other provision of law, the board of directors of any district which is licensed to have 85 beds and located within a county of 2,000,000 or more population, as determined by the 1950 census, may, without establishing a fund for capital outlays and without the approval of the district electors, use all or any funds in the possession of, or held by, the district on the effective date of the amendment made to this section at the 1967 Regular Session which were derived from previous tax levies, for the acquisition of additional patient bed capacity by lease or purchase of any hospital buildings or facilities or for new construction of additional patient bed capacity for an existing hospital.